svn commit: r369643 - head/misc/getopt

[Kubilay Kocak]

On 1/04/2015 4:46 AM, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 10/10/2014 3:43 PM, Bryan Drewery wrote:
>> On 9/30/2014 11:19 AM, Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh wrote:
>>> Author: sunpoet
>>> Date: Tue Sep 30 16:19:41 2014
>>> New Revision: 369643
>>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/369643
>>> QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r369643/
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>   - Fix PLIST when NLS option is off
>>>
>>
>> Were these updates even tested? This wiped out 2200 packages this week
>> on every branch. Portmgr failed when they copied head to Quarterly
>> without checking for fallout, but quarterly is not very much used anyway.
>>
>> This broke xorg, git, xfce, qt, the list goes on. No packages are
>> provided for this large list this week.
>>
>> Commits _must be tested_.
>>
> 
> Sorry for being so harsh here.
> 
> In the past week I have deployed a new build script to the package
> builders. If more than 1500 packages fail then the set is not published.
> It will catch issues such as this. 1500 is 6% of the tree.
> 
> Bryan
> 

+1

We need more things that help us 'fail fast', 'fail cheap', 'fail safe'
and 'fail closed', independent of, and in addition to 'test commits'.